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Love song · Adele

EXERCISE 12 OF 20
Join Part E to Part F (bars 49-51)
105 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDECFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love song on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 3-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-14 and 28-37, and 6 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Love song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-62 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-92 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love song?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Love song hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED